Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law